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Mastering Angular Components - Second Edition

By : Gion Kunz
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Mastering Angular Components - Second Edition

By: Gion Kunz

Overview of this book

Mastering Angular Components will help you learn how to invent, build, and manage shared and reusable components for your web projects. Angular components are an integral part of any Angular app and are responsible for performing specific tasks in controlling the user interface. Complete with detailed explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, the book begins by helping you build basic layout components, along with developing a fully functional task-management application using Angular. You’ll then learn how to create layout components and build clean data and state architecture for your application. The book will even help you understand component-based routing and create components that render Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll be able to visualize data using the third-party library Chartist and create a plugin architecture using Angular components. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the component-based architecture in Angular and have the skills you need to build modern and clean user interfaces.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Introducing container components

The main topic of this book is to learn how to create scalable user interfaces using Angular components. You can probably already see a trend within this chapter. From a simple task list component holding its own state, we're slowly moving into a more serious and maintainable application architecture. We've already been going through some major refactorings which can be summarized as follows:

  • Creating a simple task list component to list some tasks coming from a simple list of plain objects
  • Splitting the task list component into various subcomponents and finding the right size for our components (task list, task, checkbox, toggle)
  • Introducing a service in order to store our task data and remove any data which was directly embedded into our components
  • Using the Angular HTTP client and the in-memory web API to simulate asynchronous data...